PREISE & SAMMLUNGEN

Best Feature Documentary Award. Let It Dok! Competition at Moscow International Film Festival 2016

In the words of the Jury:"We chose Dreams Rewired for exceptional storytelling and providing an important and cinematic reminder of our collective histories. The jury was impressed with the breadth of research, materials, and editing as well as the scope of the ambitious endeavour."

“Original animations are seamlessly integrated with the wealth of delightful stock footage. A repository of striking images from the proverbial dream factory.”

– Christopher Gray, Slant

“The ethereal essay provides a bounty of poetry, in the form of a measured narration by international treasure Tilda Swinton. Thrilling. The meticulously chosen clips are often hypnotic, but the instinctual narration is what grips the viewer. The charismatic Swinton… is game for delicacy or comedy.”

“A marvelous essay film. (The filmmakers) rewind a century of footage, revealing our mania for technology is nothing new. Bombards the senses with a thorough and clever montage of found footage from the 1890s to the pre-war era. The film’s disorienting trip down the rabbit hole is steered in droll fashion, by narration read by Tilda Swinton… (The filmmakers) create a heady haze with their choice of clips… Dziga Vertov, William Cameron Menzies, Alice Guy-Blaché, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all make an appearance.”

–Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

“Playful and provocative. A time-warped essay film recontextualizing dusty old technologies as the Miracle of Now. The script prefers evocation over prosaic storytelling.”

'This film essay features an intricately, crafted voice-over by Tilda Swinton, melding together historic fact and contemporary theories.'

- Screen International

'A remarkably timely, compelling and revelatory exploration of the obscured origins of the full spectrum media environment we all inhabit; a work that learns from the past, with insight of an artist-innovator-theoretician's trio, to inform and illuminate current and ever more pressing concerns.'